According to the World Health Organization,

The cancer burden continues to grow globally, exerting tremendous physical, emotional and financial strain on individuals, families, communities and health systems.
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We know this might be a sensitive topic for some people, especially if someone out there has gone through such an experience, either themselves or someone close to them. Although, the statistical facts are there to be seen and concerningly,

Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, accounting for an estimated 9.6 million deaths, or one in six deaths, in 2018.
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It is our most important aim to raise health awareness and help in the prevention of this horrible group of diseases.

Between 30% and 50% of cancer deaths could be prevented by modifying or avoiding key risk factors and implementing existing evidence-based prevention strategies. (...) Prevention also offers the most cost-effective long-term strategy for the control of cancer.
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As the topic refers to, this time we want to open discussion around the type of management caregivers, families, individuals and communities have to do when faced with the constant rising of this disease's global prevalence. Not only helping our friends and family to do better and healthier choices as well as realising what risk factors we might have and are willing to change.

With this being said, the MED-HIVE community thought it is an important subject to discuss and more importantly, a topic to raise awareness about.

Therefore, it's now officially the beginning of the month theme!

In the following days, we will launch weekly challenges with prizes to be won, so make sure to pay attention to the @med-hive account in the next couple of days! Just to give you all a sneak peek of what might happen this month here's a summary:

Throughout February, as it is a shorter month, we will be having 3 weekly prompts.

More information about the first weekly prompt will come out on Monday the 6th February and the next ones will come out on their respective Mondays as well. Therefore, the 2nd weekly prompt post will come out on 13th February and lastly, the 3rd weekly prompt on 20th February.

These next posts will have information explaining the rules and the topic for the week as well as the prizes at stake! Stay tuned and don't miss a thing!

We heard the community and we feel we need to reward the time it takes to make posts, including research, study and even sharing vulnerable experiences regarding sickness and impairments. We now have weekly rewards as well as monthly rewards!

More information about weekly rewards will be available in each weekly prompt post. Get the dates on your schedule, 6th, 13th and 20th of February there will be a post coming out with everything you need to know to participate and get your fair shot at the weekly rewards!

The monthly rewards at stake each month are:

• 5 HIVE for the best and most helpful med-post related to Cancer Management/Research
• 5 HIVE for the best non-med post related to Cancer Management/ Experiences

Courtesy of our sponsors, @jaydr and @blackdaisyft. Thank you so much for your contribution to this community.

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👉 To be eligible for the HIVE MONTHLY REWARDS you must: 👈

• Follow the rules of the community
• Do a post, with at least 500 words, about Cancer Awareness, either experiences or research, between 00:00 UTC on February 2nd and 23:59UTC on February 28th
• Subscribe to MED-Hive community
• Join our Discord Channel and register if you are a health professional
• Engage within the community through comments and supporting others
• Place a link to your post(s) in the comment section below (please edit the same comment if you wanna share more than 1 post)

👉 All these steps must be followed to be eligible for the rewards 👈

We will take into account engagement levels, writing quality, level of evidence, readability of the content, relevance for the month's topic, creativity and if you followed all the rules. A post announcing the winner will be made in the first week of the next month and prizes will be distributed. There will also be honourable mentions with a summary of good-quality posts that we believe deserve your support and sharing.

Important Notes & Rules

Posts are welcome from everyone in and out of the community, everyone is welcome to join this prompt. What experiences do you have? What research can you share? Feel free to express yourself about this. Write your post around the focus area in a way that will:

1. Enlighten the community.

2. Equip readers to make healthy decisions.

3. Correct harmful health practices.

4. Encourage healthy practices.

5. Create and promote necessary health awareness.

The post should contain:

• An English translation if written in a native language.
• If any external material or resource is used in the post, it should be well cited and ensure proper images tailored to your post are used and rightly sourced.
• If references are used, place the link of each one at the end of your post, in a way it's easily accessible.
• The use of the following tag: #medhive

Remember to engage with others' posts and let's make the community lively. Kindly share your post on Twitter with the #medhive and #posh tags. Make sure your account is registered, giving you the possibility to earn posh tokens and also spread the word of Hive to the community on Twitter.

Let's not forget the most important rule of all:

Plagiarism is not tolerated, you are solely responsible to confirm your information and source your references properly.

Join us on Discord

If you are a health professional (med-member)

Becoming a registered member is a way to ensure scrutiny of information and credential to keep our readers safe from harmful information. We ask all health professional members to join our Discord Channel so you can complete the registration process there and get your role assigned. We will be available if you need any assistance.

If you are a non-medical member

Non-medical members are also encouraged to join the Community and Discord. You will get a non-med role assigned and more importantly, you'll join in the fun! We welcome posts meeting the requirements of the community from you too.

Final notes

PLEASE CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN OR HEALTH PROVIDER IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH. AVOID SEEKING CONSULTATIONS FOR TREATMENT ON THE PLATFORM. YOU DO THAT AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THE COMMUNITY SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHATEVER OUTCOME.

To help support the community you can reblog, comment, upvote or even delegate to the @med-hive community account, using the following links:

100HP | 250HP | 500HP | 1000HP

Also, you can join our voting trail and help us curate good quality content. We appreciate all the help we can get to reach out to more people that might benefit from our content and to properly reward our community authors.

Lastly, we want to appreciate the community admins, @jaydr, @marilour and @blackdaisyft, and other members for their work and effort made for the community and the benefit of all hivers.

Have fun and learn! We look forward to hearing from you all.

Useful resources and links for this month's theme:

• WHO - Preventing cancer
• WHO - Cancer Fact Sheets
• WHO - Cancer Country Profiles